Artificial Intelligence World Society
Mission
The mission of AIWS is to develop recommendations for the development and implementation of AI in ways that promote the public interest. This includes:
- Develop an ethical framework for the use of AI.
- Create a new social contract in the AI Age.
- Establish concepts and principles for the 7-layer AIWS.
- Innovate technical protocols to enhance cybersecurity and protect privacy.
- Building AI-Government, the AIWS City, and AI Initiatives in Politics and Society.
Foundation
The AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net) is established by former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Internet pioneer Nguyen Anh Tuan, M.I.T. professors Nazli Choucri and Alex Sandy Pentland, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson and David Silbersweig, and Northeastern University professor Christo Wilson.
This effort is sponsored by the Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute, the Government of Massachusetts, and MIT and mentored by distinguished thinkers as father of Internet Vint Cerf, father of Bayesian networks Judea Pearl, father of soft power theory Joseph Nye, and from former presidents and prime ministers who are members of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid.
AIWS will identify, publish and promote principles for the virtuous application of AI, while AIWS.net will develop apps, solutions consistent with these principles for use in politics, governments, healthcare, education, transportation, national security, and other areas.
AIWS.net is constructed on four pillars:
1. Connecting
AIWS.net connects with political leaders, policymakers, governments of more than 50 countries include G7, Russia, India etc., international organizations as United Nations, OECD, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, and distinguished thinkers, innovators, research centers from leading universities as Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis, University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Through AIWS.net leaders, and distinguished thinkers will together discuss, create initiatives, solutions, applications, and practice them to build a better world with AI.
2. Monitoring and Judging:
AIWS.net will monitor AI developments and uses by governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations to assess whether they comply with the norms and standards codified in the AIWS Social Contract 2020. Noncompliant actors will be identified and publicized through fact-based reports.
3. Principles and Solutions:
Principles of AI-Governments, AI-Citizens, AIWS Social Contract 2020, AIWS City and principles of applied AI in politics, governments, education, healthcare, transportation, national security and create solutions to practicing these principles.
Assisting the United Nations in its UN 2045 Centenary Project, including preparation of a volume of forward- looking essays (curated by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan) on technological change.
Together with principles of AIWS, the Social Contract 2020, AIWS.net created the section Modern Causal Inference (MCI) to introduce and encourage applied Causal Inference and AI in politics, governments, healthcare, and economy. Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, Turing Award, World Leader in AIWS Award, lead MCI section.
4. The History of Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Historical events, achievements, and figures in AI: The AI Chronicle updated monthly, and The History of AI House, both online and physical at Novaworld Phan Thiet, Vietnam.
The HAI Board is chaired by Governor Michael Dukakis, with Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), Professor Caroline Jones (MIT), Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Historian Chien Minh Le, President of Dalat University, Professor Ole Molvig (Vanderbilt University), Tuan Anh Nguyen (Michael Dukakis Institute), Professor Thomas Patterson (Harvard University), Professor Judea Pearl (UCLA), Professor Alex Pentland (MIT), Marc Rotenberg (Michael Dukakis Institute), Professor David Silbersweig (Harvard University), and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia, Dr. Lorraine Kisselburgh (Chair of ACM’s Global Technology Policy Council), Professor Randall Davis (Associate Director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998)), and Professor Caroline A. Jones (MIT) as members.
AIWS NEWS
United Nations Centennial Initiative: From the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to its centennial in 2045
San Francisco, July 2, 2023 Introduction: The creation of the United Nations in 1945 marked a turning point in global governance, as nations united to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of World War II. However, the challenges faced by the international...
Celebrating Governor Michael Dukakis’ 90th Birthday: AIWS City – Recognizing the Global Enlightenment Economy
To commemorate Governor Michael Dukakis's 90th birthday on November 3, 2023, leaders of the Global Enlightenment Community are joining forces to create a tribute: AIWS City. Governor Dukakis, as a co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum, has made significant...
Prof. Joseph Nye statement in Peace and Innovation conference
(July 11, 2015) - Today marks the 20th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. On this occasion, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee, in collaboration with Nha Trang peace and Innovation Village Corporation and...
BGF’s Editor-in-Chief Nguyen Anh Tuan appointed as Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO-UCLA on Global Citizenship Education
(July 5, 2015) - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) today announced that it appointed Boston Global Forum's Editor-in-Chief, Nguyen Anh Tuan, as the first Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO-UCLA Chair on Global Citizenship Education....
BOSTON GLOBAL FORUM NAMES FOUR TO THE MICHAEL DUKAKIS LEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM
(July 1, 2015) - The Boston Global Forum selection committee has named four successful candidates to the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program. The Fellows will engage in a year-long program, starting in September, to promote Global Peace and Security. The Fellows...
Boston Global Forum to Establish the Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security
(June 17, 2015) - Boston Global Forum (BGF) today announced that it will devote the remainder of 2015 to confronting the emerging peril of Cyber Warfare. Boston Global Forum is a think tank—with strong ties to professors of Harvard University and the media—that works...
Scarlett Ho
Assistant for Editorial Board, Boston Global Forum EDUCATION Northeastern University, Class of 2017, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Candidate for Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Political Science MAJOR International Affairs and Political...
Distinguished Lecture of Nha Trang- Khanh Hoa Governor Nguyen Chien Thang at the Harvard University Faculty Club June 10, 2015
Dear Professor Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of Boston Global Forum Ladies and Gentlemen, Upon my happy and proud visit to Harvard University and Boston Global Forum (BGF), I am overwhelmed by the nostalgia of my eventful youth, especially the time...